How much wieght?

It looks like you have two perfectly good tractors for heavy tillage and this one for when you need a lighter tractor.

Corn planters pull rather easy and the saddle tanks will give you all the weight you want or need.

3 point hitch mounted plows should work fine as they need the weight up front. Draw plows could justify the weight but that's where your other two tractors can help out.

A lot of guys are putting anti-freez in the tires in place of salt. It's lighter than salt less but dosen't rot out the rims.

I use 1,000lb of suitcase weights on the front of my 70hp tractor to pull a 3-16 rollover plow and no fluid in the rear tires or wheel weights. The tires rarely slip. If they do I just lift the plow a little and have all the weight I need.

Oh, I'm using 13" tires in the back and 7.50's on the front plowing in thick clay type of soils.

The front weight is to keep the front end down when picking up the plow and for general stability. With a 3 point hitch plow with the tractor moving all of the benifit plus some is transfered to the rear wheels. Think of a pry bar lifting something up - that 600lbs you have on the front is acting like a lot more.

I also pull a IH 37 8" disk with new blades all the way down with our wheel slipage or problem. I can even pull a 14' disk & grain drill (only down enugh to level the field) - wheel slipage isn't the problem HP is

You aren't doing any land prep stuff that needs the weight. You don't have a loader on it. Only thing would be if you use a sickle bar mower or the like on hills, wheel weights help stablize that.

Ok, did you have tubes in it? You might have wanted to replace the tubes. You wo't notice the small leaks putting salt on your rims.

If it didn't have tubes, dismount the tire, liberally flush off the salt. With only a few drops of fluid & lots of air, now you can have a rusting problem.

--->Paul

weight. 16.9/30 should hold 73 gallons , fluid

treated to -12 deg weighs 10.05 lbs / gallon .

When I do the math it says 730 + / tire . There

is nothing more miserable than a tractor without

enough weight, and I can assure you that you will

get real tired of handling wheel weights , leave

the fluid in .

george

David

Rod

Rod

If it's a loader that needs the weight a 3 point hitch weight box might be easier.

I've never replaced a rim yet, BUT, i do wash my rims with dish soapy water if i have a flat!! The ca will NOT rust the rims if it doesn't touch them, or you wash it off the rims with soapy water when you have a flat!!

Robert

I was trying to pull a loaded haywagon up into the barn up the barn bridge, a job the tractor could easily do with the fluid in the tires, but without the fluid and a higher psi in the tires, it was all the tractor could do to get the wagon in there spinning and digging. Also pulling a haybine or manure spreader in the field, as you go down a hill and turn the back end breaks loose a whole lot quicker and you will be steering out of a slide in a hurry. I think you will find that you will want the fluid back after you run it a while.

I run 10 tractors on our farm, and they have anything from Radial tires to cracked 30 year old tires and all of them run CaCl in them to keep the rear ends on the ground.

Do I have problems with rust on the rims?? Sure, but I just have the rims replaced with the tires every so often and keep them washed off when a tire leaks, I mean $175 for a rim to go with a $750 radial tire is a small price to pay for having to lug wheel weights on and off and trying to keep them tight, and loosing traction all the time.

Lots of people dont like fluid in the tires, but after running tractors both ways, the safty and performance of a tractor with fluid far outweighs the negative aspects the fluid has in my mind.

Just my 2 cents, I think you will want the fluid back once you drive it a while without it.

• Shep's World

1000 lbs plus of cast weights is too much bother too. :)

--->Paul

It is worth bearing in mind that you will be unlikely to get the same traction out of even the equivalent weight in wheel weights because you need to inflate the tyres to a higher pressure with wheel weights than you do with tyre filler. This means that the tyre will not have as big a 'footprint' at the higher pressure with the weights.

One of the big 'plusses' of being here in Australia with our milder climate is that you mostly don't need cal-chlor or other corrosives in water filled tyres so you can run tubeless tyres filled with plain water with a bit of corrosion inhibitor and repair any punctures with tubeless repair kits. I am not an expert on such matters but I'd be surprised if there wasn't a combination ani-freeze/corrosion inhibitor that you could add to plain water filled tyres even in your climate and go the same way.

Just a thought.

You have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.

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